The Pope has apparently felt so strongly the duty of
at least providing machinery for converting "Dr. Cumming, of Scotland," in case he should ultimately decide to go to Rome, that he has sent Archbishop Manning a second letter, telling him that though errors
once condemned by the Catholic Church in any (Ecumenical Council cannot be reopened in another council, yet heretics and Protestants are to have, if they please, a special oppor- tunity of discussing their views with some eminent Catholic divines, whom the Pope has detailed for this very purpose. We only hope the various contentious Protestant sects won't take a base advantage of this benignity of the Pope's, and overwhelm his appointed doctors with all aorta of controversy. Fortunately for the Holy Father, the journey to Rome is expensive, and lodgings there will be few,—which will at least assign an econo- mical and physical limit to the luxury of "bothering the Jesuits."
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